Essays on Billings

While the concept of race is today clearly recognized as fictitious, the term itself has taken an altogether new reality as a cultural denotation. More specifically, the culture of racism is largely influenced by geopolitical imagination and socio-political antagonism. The new political order referred to as “Empire” is a social frame work that posits “the inferiority of an “Other” based not in biology but in cultural differences and their insurmountability” (Semati, 257). Semati argues that ‘Brown’, once signified exoticism, but refers to menacing ‘Other’ today. The Brown in this case (in Semati’s article) refers to the Muslims of ...

The objective of this paper is to answer to specific questions related to marketing management.

Question 1: Market Segmentation is vital to targeting the correct consumer market for today’s numerous types of businesses. In what ways can a company divide their consumer markets into segments? Market segmentation is an integral part of effective marketing. Market segmentation, in some terms, is slicing out a group of people from a large market based on common characteristics, needs and behaviour (Rizzi, 2015). So, a market segment is a set of customers that are expected to respond in a similar manner when exposed to a marketing activity. There are four main ways that a company can use ...

Psychomotor learning plays a major role in improving the relationship between physical movement and cognitive functions of nursing graduates. It is found that vital signs and care of unconscious patients are two most significant skills for nursing students. It is important to develop effective assessment strategies for evaluating the skills of students. Assessment is the process of measuring the current skills of students and improving their skills to meet the expected results. The most efficient strategies are reflection and concept mapping. Reflection is an important approach for assessing the student's learning outcomes and improves their learning. The students show ...

One of the challenges depicted by the video is the shortages of staff and heavy workload. As such, the preceptors have many patients on their hand. This limit the time preceptors can have with the students to teach and guide the learners on different clinical procedures or how to offer adequate care to patients. Additionally, as shown in the video, the nursing faculty has not designed a proper work schedule whereby a nurse instructor has a definite time to report for the shift and offer guidance to the students. In this video, the preceptor has just been called in ...

In the nursing profession change in curriculum change is a constant requirement. The changes in health care sector have overwhelmed the service providers,consumers and insurance companies due to their sheer pace,magnitude and intensity. Reforms in the health care sector has affected the nursing profession and nurse educators have to constantly revise and up-date the curriculum to prepare and equip the nurse practitioners with relevant skills and knowledge. This helps the nurses to manage the challenges encountered at the work place. Curriculum must broadly cover topics which include global trends related to nursing, advances in technology and science, ...

The results of the inventory test indicate that my learning style is visual. This means that I opt for visual and graphical representations such as the use of bars, charts, and graphs, compared to either reading or listening to materials. For this reason, I am able to relate to content that is visually presented as I am able to remember and understand such information relatively more easily, compared to other learning styles such as aural or auditory or verbal styles. For this reason, it is recommended that I should opt for the use of visual aids, flashcards, graphs, and ...

The learning style inventory reveals I am a visual learner. As the term denotes, I respond more to visual aids or illustrations that enhance my learning ability. In this case, I often prefer information that is presented in visual representations such as graphs, charts, and diagrams. Therefore, I am able to connect the subject matter more appropriately if presented visually, compared to when I have to either read it or write it down. My learning style can further be reinforced by the fact that I remember best when I picture the concepts I learn in my mind. Thus, I ...

Infective learning strategies and incivility/bullying in the classroom

In the video, the teacher has been observed to have ineffective and poor teaching skills. The teacher lacked control over the students due to her inability to address the class to settle down, keep aside all mobile phones and electronic items and introducing the topic of the learning module (Gaberson, Oermann, & Shellenbarger, 2015). The teacher was focused more on the presentation and reading every bit from the slides without engaging the students to participate by discussion or asking questions. Many students were observed to openly converse with each other, play games, use cell phones, listen to music, and even ...

The principles of teaching and learning dictate that nursing tutors should employ Bloom’s taxonomy to set objectives used for assessment and evaluation of the learners (Gaberson & Oermann, 2010). Bloom’s taxonomy in cognitive domain entails knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation (Billings & Halstead, 2015). The set objectives are as follows;

Knowledge

List scientific strategies and arithmetic research principles applied in practical healthcare services. Mention the possible interventions towards mitigating various diseases. Comprehension Explain precautions taken while treating viral diseases. Describe ethical principles required to ensure clinical excellence in nursing. Application Prepare a well-organized history of the patient to ...

Having completed my learning and teaching style inventory, I realized that there are comparisons between the two aspects. It is clear that the teaching style inventory is focused on the relationship between the tutor’s personalities, learning strategies, and cognitive styles (Billings & Halstead, 2015). Learning style inventory are usually geared towards modeling desirable behaviors among learners. This is because as a tutor, I will always tend to show learners how best they can observe and emulate different approaches to the nursing course or medicine-related courses. Indeed my teaching style inventory employs various strategies that will ensure that the learners ...

In the video, the teacher/professor has poor teaching and classroom management skills. The video starts off with the teacher discussing about the learning module without addressing the classroom issue or introducing to the topic. It is important for a teacher to address key issues in the classroom that not only affect the entire learning objective but also despairs students from attending or paying attention in class (Gaberson, Oermann, & Shellenbarger 2015). As a teacher, I would first inform my class students to keep away all cell phones, music players, and other electronic devices away. It is important to make aware ...

The student-faculty relationship is critical and essential to maintain in the nursing fraternity to produce highly skilled and knowledgeable nursing professionals. Both nurse faculty and students must mutually understand each one’s needs and problems to benefit from the entire teaching/training program. As a nurse faculty member, I need to ensure that the quality of training and teaching are at par ensuring global standards of quality care. Many students may find the curriculum challenging and complex which may either lead to them obtaining low scores or failing in the semester. It is empirical to interact with such students on ...

My personal teaching philosophy is commitment to teaching and the welfare of the student. Teaching should be viewed as a responsibility and not a job. The purpose of teaching students in the clinic is to help them integrate theory into their practice. It may not be correct to spoon feed students on what they have to do. The best way is to involve them in the decision making process and then guide them on caring for the patient. Teaching is a two-way process, and students can bring innovation to the care process (Gaberson, Shellenbarger, & Oermann, 2015). The teaching staff ...

Two main challenges can be identified from the video. Firstly, the teaching faculty individual fails to provide comprehensible information to the nursing student. She is in a rush to provide instructions to the student, who is clearly anxious about her first clinical experience. The vague information leads to the student to wander around in the busy environment at the hospital. Secondly, the nurse preceptor is very busy and thus dismissive of the student’s situation. She fails to provide guidance to the student during her clinical experience. The above issues can be effectively dealt with from three perspectives; from ...

The major issues demonstrated in the video are the lack of respect and bad attitude towards the teacher and learning in general. This is evident in the video. The students are not keen on listening to the teacher since some have earphones and while others are busy talking while in class. Some of the students are also mimicking the teacher. As such, with this kind of behavior, it will be nearly impossible for students to obey instructions from the teacher or participate in class activities such as asking questions or engage in discussions. Additionally, the students are engaged in ...

Infective teaching strategies

The first ineffective teaching strategy depicted by the video is the lack of order in the class. The teacher did not allow the students to settle first on their desk and get their learning materials. She started teaching almost immediately as the students were busy settling in class. In this case, it is important for a teacher to give students adequate time to settle and get their stationary or notebooks ready to learn. There ought to be a policy where students arrive early in the class before the teacher arrives. Secondly, the teacher allowed students to use electronic devices ...

Nursing is both a theoretical and practical subject. Additionally, nursing students come from various working and cultural backgrounds which make them present with different abilities. Thus, it is imperative that a nurse educator embraces the various learning styles available as a way of capturing the different needs of the students. As a nurse educator, I can promote classroom learning environment by encouraging reciprocity, cooperation among the students, and active learning (Gaberson, Oermann, & Shellenbarger, 2015). Since the nursing students have a wealth of knowledge owing to their diverse backgrounds, whether cultural or working, they have the potential of transforming the ...

In most of the nursing classes, there are students from different diversities, therefore, as an educator there is the need to embrace various teaching as well as learning styles. As an educator, I must appreciate the diversity in the class, therefore, should incorporate the individual differences in the learning plan (Halstead & Billings 2012). The students have different perspective and views on certain thing based on their race or ethnic. For example, a student from America could have a different perspective from a student from Africa or Asia that need to be addressed for common understanding. In such cases, the ...

As a nurse educator, one should understand that students learn differently. Therefore, there is need to incorporate different learning and teaching styles in class to move students from their learning comfort zones. Applying different learning and teaching styles will help students learn well since one will be able to use the style they prefer and that makes them understand and grasp the concept well. For example in nursing class, flashcards and worksheets will work best for students who absorb the information visually (Gaberson, Oerman & Shellenbarger, 2015). Also, such students might be bored of listening a lecture or the educator ...

Nursing is an exciting career. It's teaching and learning is equally exciting. Majorly, it is exciting because it brings together learners from a diverse background, both working and living, into a classroom. Thus, a nursing teacher should devise strategies to capitalize on his or her student's diversity with the aim of better learning and understanding. To begin with, as a nursing educator, I will work towards developing reciprocity and cooperation between students (Billings & Halstead, 2012). Here, I will embrace the use of teamwork, class discussions, peer tutoring, and encouraging students to share their viewpoints concerning topics being discussed in ...

Abstract

There are limited or no effective interventions for recurrence of coronary heart diseases among the patients who smoke. Smoking cessation interventions has been suggested to have little benefit; however, there is little evidence on its cost- effectiveness and efficacy of such programs for cardiac inpatients. This study describes the efficacy and cost- effectiveness of intensive smoking cessation methods for cardiac patients admitted in the hospital cardiac unit. The experimental design assesses the efficacy and cost- effectiveness of the intervention that includes face- to- face counselling in combination with the nicotine replacement therapy using 8 cardiac wards of hospitals in ...

Business Plan

Business Plan

Executive Summary

A business plan is a particular statement that contains the goals of a business and the way of attainment of these goals. The paper presents a business plan that employs a business strategy in defining the business’s overall goals, management team, staffing of the organization and other factors. This plan ideally presents my idea of establishing a new business venture in the field of health care. Initially, the paper presents a well-detailed description of the business that is to be established. This includes defining the overall objectives of the business the particular products that the business ...

Childhood Obesity: An Overview

The rate of childhood obesity remains to be high in the past years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015b), 17 percent of children and teenagers or 12.7 million young individuals in the United States are affected by obesity during the past decades. Childhood obesity in children is determined by the child’s body mass index (BMI). Compared to children of the same weight and gender, a child is considered obese if his or her BMI is in the 95th percentile (Anderson & Butler, 2006). This is a serious condition. Obesity increases mortality and morbidity and presents ...

Business process

Introduction This paper mainly talks about the business process of several businesses. It shows the main business process steps which should be used in order to generate profit in a business. It also gives solutions to different business problems so that entrepreneurs can have a clue on what steps to take in their business process in case of a certain problem.

Business Process

A business process is a set of activities or tasks that when completed they will accomplish the organizational goals (Dumas, La Rosa, Mendling & Reigers, 2013). It starts by characterizing the strides it takes to complete something, enhancing those ...

P&G has been experiencing success by providing its consumers with differentiated value by offering exceptional products at premium prices. Consumer trends were greatly influenced by the 2008 recession forcing consumers to look for lower prices in the market, a trend that has affected business at P&G negatively. P&G has also been experiencing frequent quality control problems over the past with various products experiencing product recalls in 2006. The company is also faced with the challenge of counterfeit goods which are damaging to the image of the brand. The company is known for its multiple billion and half-billion dollar brands ...

Introduction

Auditing is one of the most important elements in any police department. Both the law enforcement and individual offices should always be held responsible and accountable for their own actions. Effective auditing procedures are very vital if all the policing departments are to achieve their set objectives and goals of legitimacy and lawfulness as required by the national policing authority (National Council, 2004). Lawfulness alludes to consistence with the formal prerequisites of the law, including statutes and court choices. Legitimacy alludes to the recognition that police behavior is both legal and reliable with open desires. Responsibility is acknowledged through ...

I. Introduction There is an ongoing debate about whether participating in athletic activities is beneficial to academic performance. This is an important issue in the field of education, as educational leaders must take into consideration those matters that have a direct impact on the performance of their students. Some educators argue that academics should not be mixed with athletics because college “should be a place for cultivating the mind, not the body” (White and Billings, 348), therefore, educational institutions should not be turned into a recruitment place for individuals interested in professional sports. This is based on the premise ...

The cohesive and all-sided education policy in the U.S. and some other Western countries includes a strong focus on the ‘holistic’ development of young individuals, which means combining development of not just mind alone but also body. Therefore, athletics has been literally embedded in the academic culture in multiple levels (Sitkowski17). However, given the nature of the issue, the correlation and impact of both athletics and academics on the individual’s performance and development outcomes have been debatable. Supporters of athletics and especially intercollegiate sports typical for the U.S. education system argue that sport is extremely helpful in building ...

English II-Pre Ap

Introduction Assisted suicide is a term used where doctors knowingly provided a patient or helps a person commit suicide. This can be done through inducing lethal drugs to the patients. Assisted suicide occurs in many cases due to some circumstances that leave the doctors with a choice to either save a person’s life or not (Asch 123). When doctors have to induce the assisted suicide, there has to be an agreement reached with patients, patient’s family and the doctors in order to ensure that the case is not conducted without the knowledge of the patients. When there ...